The article:

Study: Trust in science among educated conservatives plunges

The quote:

The growing distrust of science is entirely focused in two groups - conservatives and people who frequently attend church," says the study's author, University of North Carolina postdoctoral fellow Gordon Gauchat.

My thoughts:

There it is: The culture war laid bare.  ( Read more... )

Andrew Breitbart dead.

You know, I *THOUGHT* the world looked a little brighter this morning...

Remember the old adage, "Your freedom to swing your fist ends where my nose begins"?

Well this is really, really simple.

Your right to free exercise of religion ends where MY rights begin.

Believe what you like.  But nobody's forcing you to run (or work in) a restaurant.  If you do, and your religion tells you not to serve black people, then tough.  ( Read more... )

Happy new year ( Read more... )

LifeWay Christian Resources is taking "Breast Cancer Awareness Bibles" off their shelves -- because some of the proceeds will go toward saving women's lives.

Southern Baptist, "pro-life" values at work...

Also: prominent atheist Christopher Hitchens finally succumbed to his cancer last night.


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This isn't the problem:At least six people have died in Britain after being told that they had been healed of HIV, and could stop taking their medication.

There is evidence that evangelical churches in London, Manchester, Birmingham and Glasgow are claiming to cure HIV through God.

We sent three undercover reporters into the Synagogue Church of All ( Read more... )

All right, I think I need reminding why I'm supposed to be respectful of Christians and Christianity, again...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ywb1EdQtb9U

Click to view

Gas station owner = random asshole. I get that.

But those customers?

THOSE are the everyday Christians amaebi keeps defending!  Perfectly innocent, sweet, everyday people, who happen to be just fine telling ( Read more... )

So here we are.  October 21.  The real, no-kidding-this-time, end of the world, according to Harold Camping.

Two and a half weeks after the world failed to end on May 21, Camping had a stroke, and his radio program has been off the air ever since.

Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy.  [If I were religious, I'd think maybe God was trying to say ( Read more... )

This is a bad dog:


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Updated the quote on my LJ page for the first time since creating it 5 1/2 years ago.

Original quote:

Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day.  Give a man religion, and he'll starve to death while praying for a fish.

New quote:

I've never seen faith move mountains, but I've seen what it can do to skyscrapers.

It was time for a change... :)

P.S ( Read more... )